BW's John Byrne and Mara Der Hovanesian talk about how more homeowners will soon wake up to much...
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BW's John Byrne and Mara Der Hovanesian talk about how more homeowners will soon wake up to much...
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The foreclosure crisis isn't just about lost documents. It's about trust---and a clash over who...
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How to Kick-Start the U.S. Economy
Here are nine innovative ideas from around the world -- from Turkey to Brazil and Thailand to...
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The King of All Vegas Real Estate Scams
To the history of the many things that went wrong during the housing boom, Las Vegas has added...
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#354: A Former Mortgage Exec Speaks Out
On today's show, we talk with a former manager at Countrywide Financial. Cynder Niemela describes...
#256: Discipline And Forgiveness
In Spain, if you don't pay your mortgage, the bank can come after you for everything — your car,...
#243: The Frankenstein Mortgage
The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage -- the bedrock of American home ownership -- is a weird loan....
#225 Planet Money: The End Of The Housing Bust
The economy won't be healthy until the housing market bottoms out. It may take another year. On...
#211 Planet Money: Toxie's Origin Story
A few years back, when the housing market was going nuts, people didn't know we were in the...
#207 Planet Money: Wall Street Trickery Inflated The Bubble
Financial trickery! Self-dealing! CDOs! On today's podcast, we return to the last days of the...
#197 Planet Money: We Take Toxie On The Road
Our latest payment from Toxie was supposed to arrive this week. Once again, we got zero dollars...
The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania almost never use credit. The one exception...
Planet Money: A Personal Bailout
An Oregon woman bought a house at the peak of the market, just before prices began to tumble....
Listeners wrote to ask us what happened to all the private mortgage premiums that were paid to...
How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Met China
Economist Brad Setser obsessively studies the way China buys American debt. If the buying stops,...
Pension reforms, mortgage slowdown and student housing
Jonathan Eley and guests discuss the major pension reforms effective in April, how the mortgage...
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How Mortgage-backed Securities Work
The 2008 US financial crisis has been blamed on the excessive use of mortgage-backed securities....
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Loan Rangers: John Cassidy on the candidates and the crisis.
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Confirmation Confrontation, Mortgage Medicine, Technology: Tops and Flops, Fine Films and Oscar,...
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More Best of 2010, Lessons from Underground, Foreclosure Fiasco, Conservative Case for Gay...